Davis Rostad gave Biglerville the lead in Game 1 with an RBI double in the third.

T.C. Senseney shut down the Raiders until Hanover put up single runs in the third and fourth.

A.J. Phillips lifted a sacrifice fly and Alex Smith drove in a run with a single.

Hanover put the game away in the sixth with five runs on just one hit, with help from three Biglerville errors. Beau Deatrick and Pat Brady each tallied sac flies in the rally.

Null mowed through the Black Sox lineup on just 54 pitches through five innings. He retired the side in order four times.

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Biglerville loaded the bases with no outs in the seventh, knocking Null from the game, but they only mustered one run before Shane Nace came on and earned the save.

"As a starting pitcher, you always want to finish everything you start," Null said. "I struggled against these guys last year, so I really wanted to pitch the whole game, but we have a good team, and Shane pitched well. One player doesn't win a game."

Pat Brady didn't win Game 2 by himself, but he ignited an offensive smorgasbord with a leadoff home run on the third pitch from Jarod Robinson.

Robinson then walked the bases loaded, throwing just nine strikes in his first 26 pitches.

However, he wriggled off the hook, and retired the next six batters without incident.

Hanover, playing as the away team in Game 2, put its first four men on in the third.

Singles by Phillips, Jordan Witmer, and Bob Taylor were followed up by a two-run double off the bat of Jordan Higgins.

A groundout by Smith and a sac fly by Keith Pappas pushed the lead to 5-1.

Hanover led, 7-2, in the bottom of the fourth when Kyle Knouse tagged a three-run homer to close the gap to 7-5.

"I wasn't hitting the ball well all day, and then I got one up into the wind," Knouse said. "Unfortunately, it didn't translate back into the field."

Pappas whacked a homer after a six-pitch battle to start the fifth.

Witmer, who drove in five runs in the game, smacked a double to bring in two more and make it 10-5.

Doubles by Pappas and Witmer highlighted a seven run Hanover rally in the sixth.

"Hopefully, that allows some of these guys to relax a little bit, and we will swing the bats the way we can," Hanover manager Steve Weaver said.

"To be honest, I don't want a bye," Taughinbaugh said of the reward for finishing the regular season in first place. "Baseball isn't a thing where you sit down and it rejuvenates you. If we get it, we get it, but we are not too worried about it."